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A wooly warm on my back steps

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by jlzellers (Subscribe)

Posted on: Oct 7, 2009 at 11:00 PM EDT

Channel: Weather

Location: Mishwaka
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A friend had just dropped off something at my house and as I came up the back steps, I saw this fuzzy thing on the back steps.

I've never seen anything like it before. So I called my mom out (there's a reason why it's in the weather section) and said it was a wooly warm.

According to an article on Wikipedia, "Folklore of the eastern United States and Canada holds that the relative amounts of brown and black on the skin of a woolly bear caterpillar (commonly abundant in the fall) are an indication of the severity of the coming winter. It is believed that if a woolly bear caterpillar's brown stripe is thick, the winter weather will be mild and if the brown stripes are narrow, the winter will be severe. In reality, hatchlings from the same clutch of eggs can display considerable variation in their color distribution, and the brown band tends to grow with age; if there is any truth to the aphorism, it is minimal."

im says ...

On Thursday, Oct 29 at 8:37 PM

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sweet worm

god says ...

On Friday, Dec 11 at 9:25 AM

Commenter

thats an awesome worm lol

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